James Herbert BUDD

(1851-1908)

BUDD, James Herbert, a
Representative from California; born in Janesville, Rock County,
Wis., May 18, 1851; moved to California in 1859 with his parents,
who settled in Stockton; attended the public schools in Stockton
and Brayton College, Oakland, in 1869; was graduated from the
University of California at Berkeley in 1873; served as lieutenant
colonel on the Governor’s staff in 1873 and 1874; deputy
district attorney in 1873 and 1874; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in Stockton; served as first
lieutenant in the California National Guard and was promoted to
major of the line; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth
Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); declined to be a candidate
for reelection in 1884; appointed police and fire commissioner of
Stockton in 1889; member of the board for drafting the city charter
in 1889; Governor of California 1894-1898; resumed the practice of
law in San Francisco; died in Stockton, Calif., July 30, 1908;
interment in Rural Cemetery.